Category: media
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A Word On The Word
"People love a funeral and in the digital age they don't even have to dress for it." David Hepworth I was truly saddened to read of the demise of The Word magazine. As well as being a long-time subscriber and fan of this wonderfully witty and charmingly written magazine, it seemed that it was symptomatic…
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Post Of The Month – May 2012 – The Winner
It was run close by John Willshire's excellent post but in the end, the winner of Post Of The Month for May 2012 was Heidi Hackemer's deck for the Swedish APG on Planning, Creativity & Planning For Creative Campaigns. So well done Heidi. You get the props of your blogging peers and are entered into the Hall Of…
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Post Of The Month – May 2012 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. Lots of rich thinking in the shortlist this month I think. So, our vote this month is between: What Does Your Brand Need More Of? by Richard Huntingdon Make Things People Want or Make People Want Things? from John Willshire Planning, Creativity & Planning For Creative Campaigns by Heidi Hackemer Advanced Persistent Opportunities: Building…
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Post Of The Month – May 2012 – Nominations
I'm a few days late with this this month due to holiday (sorry) but it's time to open up for nominations for Post Of The Month – so please nominate your favourite posts that were posted in the month of May in the comments below. As always I've listed a few of my own favourites as…
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Distributed And Destination Thinking
When I talk to clients about getting into a 'digital mindset' I often end up talking about the differences between distributed and destination thinking. Destination thinking is the kind of media approaches that have been with us for many years. We create content, attract (or 'drive') users to that content in order to keep them…
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The Rise Of Product Management
The function and role of Product Management is increasingly becoming a really pivotal one in many digitally facing organisations. Having been aware of it's increasing popularity amongst media owner organisations, the growing importance of Product Management into a much broader spectrum of businesses and sectors became clear when I was researching organisational structures and resourcing for…
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Aggregating, And Being Aggregated
I've been playing around with the Tomahawk Music Player. Tomahawk is described by Word Magazine (which is where I first saw mention of it) as a "high-precision one-stop desktop app for millions of tracks from every last corner of the web". It's a pretty good description. Tomahawk runs many sources of music side-by-side,…
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Digital Intimacy And Gestures
There's some rather lovely work here by Marco Triverio, an interaction designer at IDEO, playing around with (and disrupting) the asynchronous nature of much non-verbal communication over mobile devices. Feel Me experiments with different ways of creating a 'sweet, playful connection with the person on the other side'. I'm quite taken with some of the ideas…
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Post Of The Month – April 2012 – The Winner
Well, it was run close by Patricia McDonald's strong post on the interest graph and social commerce but in the end, the winner of Post Of The Month was Dan Hon's personal and powerful post: Myself, Quantified. So well done Dan. You get the props of your blogging peers and are entered into the Hall…
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Post Of The Month – April 2012 – Nominations
It being the beginning of the month means it's time to open up nominations for Post Of The Month. So please nominate your favourite posts that were posted in the month of April in the comments below. As always I've listed a few of my own favourites as a starter – please add to these and once I…